Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threat...

Dennis Potter's drama about a patient struggling to keep his sanity, with the help of his alter ego, the singing priv...

While in hospital with psoriasis, Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy, and remembers seeing his mo...

Marlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot. His memorie...

Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.

The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's death in London. Forty years on...